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“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
― American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
― My Sister's Keeper
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”
― My Sister's Keeper
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
― For One More Day
― For One More Day
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.”
― Secondhand World
― Secondhand World
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